Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Garden of Eden
“There are no rules anymore and if you believe that there are, then you’ll be left out.”
Erika Jayne interview to Interview Magazine https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/drinks-real-housewife-erika-jayne (2018)
“Even if you live to one hundred, you’ll still be dead forever.”
Death and the Eternal Forever (2014)
“He thought it happier to be dead,
To die for Beauty, than live for bread.”
Beauty
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.”
"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Context: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
“When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk
on the table: it attracts the dead.”
Sonnet 6 (as translated by Edward Snow)
Sonnets to Orpheus (1922)
“I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.”
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Context: I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
“The dead should not rule the living.”
“Seven cities claimed blind Homer, dead,
Through which blind Homer, living, begged his bread.”
Vergil in Averno (1987)
